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This exceedingly-qualified expert CRNA is considered a national leader in CRNA education in the United States. She writes questions for the National Board of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists CPC Examination. She received her B.A. in biology from Adelphi University and her M.S. Biology from Southern Connecticut State University. She holds multiple nursing degrees including a Doctorate of Nurse Anesthesia Practice from Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to her clinical practice, she is Professor and program director of the Nurse Anesthetist Program at a well-respected Nursing School in the Northeast.

This expert earned his BSN from the University of Texas. He then went on to earn his Masters in Nursing with a focus in Anesthesia from The University of Tennessee. He has been an active CRNA for over 18 years and has provided anesthesia for a large range of procedures and in a variety of settings including private practices and hospitals. He is active in his field as a member of numerous societies and committees including The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and The Tennessee Association of Nurse Anesthetists. He most recently served as Chief Operating Officer at Innovative Anesthesia Management where he had clinical and administrative oversight of 20 facilities in 12 states with over 150 CRNAs. He currently owns a multi-specialty CRNA group in Tennessee and actively provides clinical anesthesia services as an independent contractor in various hospital settings. He is well versed with JCAHO, AAAHC and AAAASF standards.

This highly-qualified expert has over 30 years of experience as a certified registered nurse anesthetist. He earned his BS in nursing from South Dakota State University before completing his certification in nurse anesthesia at Mayo Medical Center. He later earned his MBA from the University of Iowa. He is a licensed registered nurse and a licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner. This expert is very active in his field as a member of several professional societies including the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists and the Iowa Association of Nurse Anesthetists. In addition, this expert has been invited to give clinical lectures on over 50 occasions. Formerly, this expert held several roles throughout his career including as a registered nurse in the ICU at Saint Mary’s Hospital before he became certified in nurse anesthesia. He then became a staff CRNA at Mayo Medical Center- St. Mary’s Hospital, Veterans Memorial Hospital, and Decatur County Hospital. He was also the former director of CRNAs at the Regional Medical Center of Northeast Iowa. This expert is currently the president and co-owner at an anesthesia services company in Iowa.

This qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in nursing, having work in critical care, step-down, medical-surgical, renal transplant, and, most recently, post-operative care. She graduate cum laude from Old Dominion University with her BS in nursing and is certified in perianesthesia nursing, advanced cardiovascular life support, basic life support, and pediatric advanced life support. She is active in her field as a member of both the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses and the Virginia Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses. She formerly served as a staff nurse and preceptor at Bon Secours - Maryview Hospital and the staff nurse at Sentara Healthcare - Norfolk General Hospital. For the past 10 years, this expert has worked for a healthcare system in Virginia, working in the post-anesthesia care unit as the unit coordinator, permanent charge, and preceptor nurse.

This highly-qualified expert is a triple board-certified anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician with an expertise in pediatric anesthesiology and pediatric acute and chronic pain. She earned her BS in biology and psychology from Loyola University before earning her MD from Rush Medical College. She subsequently completed a pediatrics internship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, an anesthesiology residency and a pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Washington University at St. Louis, and a pain medicine fellowship at Harvard Medical School. This expert is board certified in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology, and pain medicine. She is active in her field as a member of several organizations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Society for Pediatric Pain Medicine. She formerly served as a cancer research technical assistant for the Laboratory of Population Genetics at the National Cancer Institute and as an assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology, perioperative, and pain medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Currently, this expert is the director of chronic pain at a university-affiliated hospital in Washington, DC.

This impressive expert has nearly 40 years of experience in pain medicine, pain management, and anesthesiology. He received his BS in electrical engineering and his AB in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania before earning his MS in electrical engineering, his PhD in biomedical engineering, and his MD from Stanford University. He subsequently two residencies at UCLA Medical Center, one in orthopedic surgery and the other in anesthesiology. This expert is board-certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, and holds certifications in pain management and fluoroscopy and radiation safety. He is active in his field as an author of several scientific articles and as a member of professional organizations, including the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. Formerly, he was an anesthesiologist at Amador Anesthesia Medical Group, the medical director and partner at The Center for Total Back Care, the Advanced Spine & Pain Management Center, and the Arizona Medical Spinal Institute, and a locum tenens physician at multiple medical centers in California and Arizona. This expert is currently an anesthesiologist at a private practice, the owner of a pain management center, and an assistant professor of anesthesia and pain management at a university, all in Nevada.

This qualified expert has over 10 years of experience in anesthesiology, pain management, and regenerative medicine. He earned his BS in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University and his MD from Johns Hopkins University. He subsequently completed an internal medicine internship at the University of Cincinnati, an anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a pain management fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Institute. This expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine, and is active in his field as a frequent author of scientific articles and as a member of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain and the Interventional Orthopedics Foundation. Since 2010, this expert has served as the medical director of a pain management practice in Kentucky.

This highly-qualified, board-certified expert has over 25 years of experience in anesthsiology. He received his BA in biology and psychology from Washington University at St. Louis before earning his MD from the University of Miami. He then completed his residency training in internal medicine and anesthesiology at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is an active member of several professional societies and has received numerous funded grants for his contributions to post-operative anesthesiology research. In addition, this expert has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and abstracts and 13 books. He formerly served as the chief of perioperative medicine, the chief operating officer of the department of anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and pain management, and the vice chair of clinical research in anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and pain management, all at the University of Miami. Currently, this expert serves as a tenured professor of anesthesiology at a medical school in Florida, as well as the chairman of the anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, and pain management department and the chief of perioperative medicine for a university-affiliated hospital, also in Florida.

This expert has over twenty five years of experience as a nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Over his career, this CRNA worked for multiple independent anesthesia firms providing anesthesia services to various hospitals across Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. Much of his work is done in CRNA-only rural hospitals and surgery centers. This expert has also worked as a clinical instructor at Arkansas State University and Union University in the nurse anesthesia programs. Currently, this CRNA works in a small community hospital providing anesthesia services for multiple surgical specialties and obstetrics. Additionally, this expert provides services for a free-standing GI center.

This double board certified nurse practitioner has been practicing for over a decade in acute and critical care. A member of many professional nursing societies, including the Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, this expert is also a member of the ANCC Board Examination Acute Care Content Expert Panel and a reviewer for the journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Not only is this expert currently an Assistant Professor of both Nursing and Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but he is also the Director of the ACNP program at the same institution.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for 25 years. He obtained his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, completed an Anesthesiology residency at Columbia University, and completed a Pain Management fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University. Extensively published in the field, he sits on the Editorial Boards of "Pain", "Anesthesiology", "Anesthesia & Analgesia", "Pain Medicine", "Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine", and "Pain Physician", among others, while he is also a member of the Advisory Board of the American Pain Foundation. Currently, this expert is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at 2 major medical universities. He has received both government and private funding for numerous studies, including for facet pain, neck pain, sacroiliac joint pain, epidural steroid injections and headaches. He also serves as the Director of Pain Research at a major medical center and the Chief of Anesthesia and Operative Services at another major hospital.

This expert currently serves as Medical Director for a pain treatment physicians group and as Staff Anesthesiologist for three medical centers in North Carolina. He received a M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and finished a fellowship in Pain Management at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. A member of various professional organizations including the American Society of Anesthesiologists , he serves as a peer reviewer for various insurance carriers related to pain management and anesthesia. He has experience as an expert witness relating to anesthesia and pain management. He also serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for a pain medicine association.

This board certified Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at a major university completed internship at Yale University School of Medicine and residency at University of Virginia. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the International Anesthesia Research Society and the Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists. He won the Anesthesiology Faculty Annual Resident Teaching Award for two consecutive years for his outstanding contribution to academia.

This expert is a board certified pain management physician who has been practicing for over 15 years. He is a member of the American Pain Society and the American Medical Association, and has over 50 journal articles published in the field. He is the Chief of Pain Medicine at a major university in California, and he is the author of pain management book, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

This highly qualified Professor of Anesthesiology received a bachelors degree from Harvard University before gaining her medical degree from the prestigious Yale University School of Medicine. She is Fellowship trained in Obstetric Anesthesiology and board certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology . This expert is a member of numerous professional organizations including the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Anesthesia. She has published eight peer-reviewed journal articles as well as four textbooks. She is a former Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University.

This highly qualified, fellowship trained expert has over twenty years of experience in anesthesiology. She is a member of numerous anesthesiology societies, and has held various leadership positions in many of them. She has been presented with multiple awards for her research on obstetric anesthesia, and has over seventy peer reviewed articles and published abstracts on various anesthesiology topics. In her current position as a professor, this highly qualified expert has focused her educational vision around the need to develop a new division of Obstetric Anesthesia at a Washington State medical center. With the goal to build a strong clinical anesthesia program for a particularly high-risk obstetric service providing care to the sickest population in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, she recruited academic anesthesiologists, each with specific skills and expertise, to train obstetric anesthesiologists for a career in academic medicine. She was able to achieve this goal by demonstrating innovative leadership and mentorship, and being a role model as a clinical educator.

This expert has been a practicing CRNA for 10+ years in both NY and VA working in large medical centers. She received her medical training at among the nation's top healthcare programs, and holds both a clinical doctorate and PhD. She is published and has lectured nationally and internationally. Additionally, she is adjunct faculty and a clinical preceptor for a nationally ranked Nurse Anesthesia program.

This double board certified expert has been practicing for over 10 years. Fellowship trained in Pain Medicine and a member of multiple prestigious professional societies, he is adept at managing intrathecal pain pumps. He is not only an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at a major medical university, but also the Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at the same institution and the DIrector of the Center for Pain Management at his institution's affiliated hospital.

This board-certified Anesthesiologist is currently the Medical Director of Pain Medicine at one of the nation's most prestigious University Medical Centers, as well as an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the same university. He earned his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, completed his fellowship in pain medicine from Weill Cornell Medical College, completed his Anesthesia residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, and completed his Medicine Internship at Caritas Carney Hospital. This expert is a member of numerous societies in the fields of anesthesiology and pain medicine. He has also been published more than 10 times in the relevant fields.

This highly qualified expert is board certified in anesthesiology and pain medicine and has years of practice. He completed his internship training at New England Medical Center and his residency training in anesthesiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital before concluding a fellowship in pain management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the president of the Massachusetts Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and a member of various other professional associations, including the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is a former instructor of anesthesiology at Harvard University and the former director of the acute postoperative pain service at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Currently, he is an assistant professor of pain management at a top 5 university, where he also directs the interventional pain service.